« I just saw a a Lou Dobbs’ program news story which stated that head injuries make up 65% of the total in Iraq and Afghanistan. A doctor whose son is in the war zone stated that the Marines said they could not afford the better, more protective helmet lining which is available. Yet, the pentagon will ask for big bucks this year for a pre-emptive strike missile which all of us know will lead to American men and women in yet another theatre of war–with cheap helmets.
For those still paying close attention despite the birth of Angelina’s baby, this is the opposite of a drawdown. »
 

Among his many accomplishments, Genghis Khan invented the off-shore tax shelter, straight-line depreciation for pillaged goods and the concept of ’swords or butter.’ While his grandson Kublai Khan is generally credited with writing off vacation yurts as a business expense, it was actually Genghis who first used the deduction which was disallowed.

The London Times onlineMay 30, 2006


How I am related to Genghis Khan

By Mark Henderson

A US accountant has proof that he is descended from the Mongol warlord

THEY seem the unlikeliest of relatives. One was a fearsome warlord whose name became a byword for savagery. The other is a mild-mannered accountancy academic from Florida.

Yet Tom Robinson, 48, has become the first man outside Asia to trace his ancestry directly to Genghis Khan, the 13th-century Mongol leader whose empire stretched from the South China Sea to the Persian Gulf.

Please read the entire article here.

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inf.fu-Berlin.de; fieracavalli.com

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